0 The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jeflfersoa VOL 6. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SCHOCH & SPJERING. TERMS Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars and a quarter, half yearly and if not paid before the end of the year, Two dollars and a half. Those who receive their pipers by a earner or stage drivers employed by the proprie tors, will be charged 3, 1-2 cts. per year, extra. No papers discontinued until all arrearages arc paid, except at the option of the Editors. 1C Advertisements not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) will be inserted three weeks for one dollar.- twenty-five cents for every subsequent insertion : larger ones in proportion. A liberal discount will be made to yearly advertisers )t?All letters addressed to the Editors must be post paid. To all Concerned. We would call the attcnlion of some of our subscribers, and especially certain Posi Mas ters, to the following reasonable, and well set tled rules of Law in relation to publishers, to the patrons of newspapers. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not gie express no tice to the contrary, are considered as wishing io continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of lheir papers, the publishers may continue to send them till all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse Jo take iheir papers from the offices to which they are directed, they are held responsible till they hare settled their bill, and ordered :heir papers discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with out informing the publishers, and iheir paper is sent to the former direction, they are held re sponsible. 5 The courts have decided that refusing to take a newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri ma facie evidence of tntentwna fraud. From the New York Tribune. Sleep. BY AUGUSTUS SNODGRASS. Hail! soothing sleep, whose kindly power Lifts care and anguish from the mind ; How happy they, whom in thy bower Thou dost with golden fetters bind. Sorrows left in the years behind, Clouds threatening present woe and blight, Slumber in the deep silence of thy night. Thine is a wild, fantastic reign, Where stern Reaiity ne'er dwells, But thronging Dreams, a changeful train, Come from thy deep, mysterious cells; And as thou breath'st thy magic spells, Joys change to griefs and woe to gladness, And smiling Mirth grows frantic in its madness. To some thou art a jailor stern ; Where high ambition fills the mind, And pressing thoughts forever burn, Thou dost a soul unwilling bind. Sleep, like a sentinel unkind, Comes to rob him of those hours era. "When Thought begins to show her noblest pbw Thou art an Angel to the pure, A Comforter of woe and pain, A fierce Avenger, swift and sure, Where Crime doth fill the teeming brain. Thou comest with a shadowy train Of Horrors, screetching woe and blight, Ttll like a dungeon seems the silent night. Thou art the Laborer's steady friend : When evening shades his labor close, His Soul from earnest toil doth bend, And filled with kindling visions glows. At home his heart the pleasure knows, Which e'er on honest toil attends, While Sleep to life a brighter coloring lends Thou art an image true and high Of that last sleep, when like the fall Of Autumn leaves, grown sear and dry, The human Soul, escaped its thrall, Shall shed its withered robes, and all Beauteous and fair, shall mount where dwells The embodied bliss we saw in thy deep spells. Let me with true heart feel thy power, And enter thoughtful thy rude halls; And hopo that when shall come the hour That the poor shrinking soul appals, 1 t-...,,...;lLr mav mnnnt the walls That overlook the future Life, .riie: 1 " - w -r I a-i ... .... .u "mm tb world's loud ntm -i-eu uy nice, g'iub SOAP.-I. is stated that Soap can be made better and with less trouble without boiling than r wnb, in the following manner. ....... ..r i. .mnc Pnouph to j use unu guiiwu ui tj c t .- A .nC r..,e. Pui ZZJZ.JZ;mZ eKa.eciCa,ing away sol,,, he remain, of a huhei.o . .. : .s-.-..iiM.r S.ir ihi three or four limes a day, for several dy,;Or until i a.;. I. t) .. .1.:. rVciu vmi hni'.fi ROai) tlJIMIlMl Si h HlL't.Ul, UUIU'IUWI. w-- STROUDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, The Bible. It is a book of laws, to show the right and the wrong. It is a book of wisdom that condemns all fol ly and makes the foolish wise. It is a book of truth, that tests all errors. It is a book of life, that shows the way from everlasting death. It is the most compendious book in all the world. It is the most authentic and interesting his tory that ever was published. It contains the most ancient antiquities, re markable events and wonderful occurrences. It points out the most heroic deeds and un paralleled wars. It describes the celestial, lerrestial and the lower worlds. It explains the origin of the angelic myriads of human tribes, and devilish legions. It will instruct the most accomplished me chanic and the profoundest artist. It will instruct the best rhetorician, and ex ercise every power of the most skillful arithme tician. It will puzzle the wisest anatomist and the nicest critic. It corrects the vain philosopher, and confuses ,j,e wjseat astronomer. It exposes the subtle sophist, and drives di viners mad. It is a complete code of laws, a perfect body of divinity, and unequalled narrative. It is a book of lives. r y It is a book of travels. It is a book of voyages. It is the best covenant that over was agreed to; the best deed that ever was sealed. It is the best testament that ever was signed. It is wisdom to understand it ; to be of it, is awfully destitute. It is the house-wife's best guide, and the ser vant's best instructor. It is the young man's best companion. It is the school-boy's spelling book. It is the learned man's masterpiece. It is the ignorant man's dictionary. It affords knowledge of all witty invention, and it is its own interpreter. It encourages the wise, the warrior, and the overcomer. And that which crowns all, is that the author, is without partiality, and hypocracy. " With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning is God." Singular Bill. Extract from an old Scotch newspaper, dated Edinburgh, February 7, 1707. Copy of a pain ter's bill presented to the Vestry for work done in our Church : To filling up a chink in the Red Sea, and repairing the damages of Pharaoh's host. To a new pair of hands for Daniel in the Li on's den. and a new set of teeth for the Lion- ess. To repaiiing Nebuchadnezzar's beard. To cleaning the Whale's belly, varnishing Jonah's face and mending his left arm. To a new skirl to Jacob's garment. To a sheet anchor, a jury mast and a long boat for Noah's Ark. To giving a blush to the cheeks of Eve, on presenting an apple to Adam. To painting a new city in the Land of Nod. To cleaning the Garden of Eden, after Ad- am's expulsion. Promising Business. Some people are digging for money in Mul berry street, New York. It seemB that some antiquated female has recently had a remarka ble dream, in which she was informed that im mense sums were deposited somewhere in the I . ! tt I 1 n .1 n .. inn inn tTl fl ! O T fl Mill- ne.gnoui.iuuu, -,,u --- iect of tea table gossip witn a numoer oi iier ... i i .i . ,u cronies, uiey iuui ii uicuuiiiigi u.i -..w.-v precise spot was indicated, and the work ol removing the depos.te nas comment , ... est The signs, we are informed, are indubit esl- 1 ue s,t" m(1I1 able: one of these dreams descrtbtng the mon . -,.1 t, ey as lying under a wall, and suie enough on unknown wall have been exliumea A country' paper speaking of a blind wood- NORTH-EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA Rail Road Convention. Pursuant to public notice, some 400 Dele gates to this Convention assembled at the Meth odist Church in Dundaff, on Wednesday, Feb ruary 11, 1846, at half-past two o'clock, P. M. The Convention was called to order by Col. H. B. Wright, of Luzerne, by the appointment of Hon. William Jessup, of Susquehanna county, President; Geo. P. Steele, of Luzerne. S. D. Phelps, of Wyoming, Hon. J. H. Brodhead, of Pike, and E. W. Hamlin, of Wayne, Vice Presidents; and S. S. Winchester, of Wyoming, Eleazcr Carey, of Luzerne, Gould Phinney, of Susquehanna, Win. M'Laury, of Wayne, and T. J. Ridgeway, of Pike, Secretaries The object of the Convention was then sta ted by the President. On motion of Chester Tuttle, Resolved that a Committee of three from each County repre sented be appointed to prepare a preamble and resolutions expressive of the sense of the Con vention whereupon the Chair appointed the following named gentlemen said committee : Chester Tuttle, Eleazer Carey, Thomas Meri dith, of Luzerne ; II. Roys, Samuel Dimmick, J. :I. Heller, of Pike ; Pope Bushnell, George Bush, John Raymond, of Wayne ; E. P. Phin ney, Daniel Scarle, Warren Bailey, of Susque hanna ; John Brisbln, T. T. Slocum, Rufus Toi ler, Jr., of Wyoming. The Convention was very ably addressed by Col. Hendrick B. Wright, Lewis Jones, Jr., Esq., Judge Jessup, and others. The Committee through their chairman, Ch. Tuttle, Esq., reported the following preamble and resolutions, which, after an interesting dis cussion, in which Hon. William Jessup, H. B Wright, G. Phinney, C. Tuttle, Elhanan Smith, S. S. Winchester, Thomas Meredith and John Brisbin, Esq's., participated, were unanimously adopted: Your Committee regard the subject referred to them for their report as one of vital impor tance, not only to ihe counties here represent ed, but to all Northern Pennsylvania. The New York and Erie Rail-Road Compa ny desire to construct theii road through the northern part of this Commonwealth, on their route from Piermont to Lake Erie. In asking this permission they freely extend to this State, her citizens, or companies, the right of connect ing with this road any of iheir present or future improvements, and thereby to use and enjoy the road for all the purposes of travel, freight, and trade, without making any discrimination in their lolls and charges. By granting to the Company this permission, your committee believe, that while it would op erate injuriously to no other portion of the Com monwealth, it would open a markot for the pro ducts of the North which can never be made accessible in any other way a market that would unfold the undeveloped treasures of Northern Pennsylvania, which now are, and (unless the asked for permission is granted,) must forever remain unavailable to her citizens for the want of that cheap and easy access to market which is'now enjoyed by the citizens of almost ever3? other portion of the Common wealth. The citizens of the Northern part of the State are burdened with the payment of taxes to de fray the expenditures which have been made in the construction of internal improvements for the benefit of other portions of the State. This they have borno cheerfully for years, knowing that it was inexpedient for the Commonwealth in its present pecuniary embarrassments, if not altogether impracticable, to extend to them the benefits of Slate Improvements. And now that a Company of a sister State asks the privilege of extending to them the means of relief, and of becoming one of the wealthiest sections of the Commonwealth, your committee deem it but an act of justice that the Legislature should permit the citizens of the North to enjoy the privileges which have already been conferred upon their brethren in other portions of this Commonwealth. Your committee believe that the construction of the Road through our Northern borders, would operate beneficially upon tho interests of the North Branch Canal, by the creation of a healthful competition, which would result in the early completion of that important work, an pb jeet truly desirable. FEBRUARY 26, 1846. They therefore offer for adoption by the Convention the following resolutions: Resolved, 1. That the interests of Northern Pennsylvania imperiously demand that every practicable facility be given to the New York and Erie Rail Road Company, as well by per mitting them to come within the borders of the State, as by extending lo them a liberal charier for that purpose. 2. That the allegations that any of the great interests of Pennsylvania will be injured by granting the Railroad the privilege of entering the counties of Pike and Wayne, or any other of the Northern counties of ihe State, is with out foundation, as a recurrence to the geograph ical position of the State will show. That while no interests are injuriously to be affected, many great interests are to be promoted. 3. That the Coal, Iron, Agricultural, and Manufacturing interests of the Northern part of the State requiro the construction of the said Road. 4. That a liberal policy towards the works of adjoining sister Stales, is demanded, as one of the indissoluble bonds of Union, and as be ing due as well to the magnanimity of Pennsyl vania as a great and generous State, as to the interest of all her citizens. 5. That the Northern tier of counties, ex cepting Bradford and Erie, have received no benefit from the public expenditures, are cutoff from the great avenues of trade and sources of wealth opened by the State, and are so situated that no contemplated State improvements can ever be expected to reach them. It is there fore but an act of justice that our highly favored brothern on the lines of our State Canals and Railroad should extend to us freely and fully the small boon for which we ask. 6. That in the opinion of this Convention, the completion of the New York and Erie Rail Road, with its collateral Roads and Canals, will in five years increase the value of taxable prop erty in ihe Northern counties fifty per cent., and in ten years one hundred per cent. 7. That the capabilities of Northern Penn sylvania in agriculture and manufactures, and her mineral resources, are entirely undervalued in the greater part of the Slate ; that we need but the opening of a market, and the facilities enjoyed elsewhere, to rival any portion of the State in productive wealth ; and we ask of right that we be not deprived of what has become the common right of nearly all the Common wealth a cheap and easy access to market. 8. That the Bill granting the right of way a3 reported to the House of Representatives, is, in the opinion of this Convention, well guarded, and that the interests of the citizens of this State are well protected therein. 9. That the great Coal and Iron interests of the Lackawanna and Wyoming vallies require, nay imperiously demand the fostering care of the Legislature, and a company or companies, to connect by Canal or Railroad with the North Branch Canal, and to connect with tho Dela ware and Hudson Canal and the New York and Erie Rail Road to the North and East, ought to be immediately created. 10. That this Convention are the friends of the immediate completion of the North Branch Canal, and that it is respectfully asked of the constituted authorities as well as the people of the State of New York, to permit and allow a connection of the North Branch Canal with the Canal improvements of the State ; and that while the people of Northern Pennsylvania are willing lo afford every facility for tho accom modation of the Now York and Erie Rail Road Comnanv. thev ask a corresponding feeling and j j "interest on the part of the people of New York in furtheringthe connection of the North Branch Canal with the New York canals. 11. That the State of Pennsylvania has ex pended an immense amount of money in the building of the North Branch Canal, with a di rect reference to a union with the public works of New York, and that good faith on the part of the people of the State of New York is anx iously looked for by the people of this State, in the connection of this important link of inland navigation, vitally important to the mutual inter ests of these two great Commonwealths. 12. That in the opinion of this Convention the Granting to the New York and Erio Rail DO- Road Company ihe right to construct their road through Northern Pennsylvania would havo a No. 38 tendency to expedite "ihe completion of the North Branch Canal. 13. That our Senators and Representative be and they are hereby requnsted ami instruct ed to vote for and use their influence to pro cure the passage of a law auibnrizinw tho New York and Erie Rail Road Company to con struct their road through the Northern part of Pennsylvania. Col. H. B. Wright offered tfie following res olution, which was adopted. Resolved that the proceedings of this Con vention be signed by the officers, and published in all the papers of the counties hero represent ed; and thai a copy of the same be sent to the Speakers of the Senate jind House of Repre sentatives of Pennsylvania, and to the Speak ers of the Senate and House of Representatives of New York. On motion of S. S. Winchester, Resolved that the thanks of this Convention be tendered to the proprietors of the M. E. Church for 'rheir kindness in permitting thi Convention to assemble in their houe. On motion, the Convention adjourned'-siie die. (Signed by the Officers.) Bank Protection. The Albany Atlas gives a description of the contrivance which Banker Rothschild, of Lon don, has upon tho door of his vault to prevent incursions of thieves to his "pile." It is a-wonderful piece of mechanism and we suppose if the fact of its existence was generally known his money bags would be perfectly safe. If a person attempts the lock, or tampers with it in slightest degree, an iron hand and arm is thrust out from the door, clenches the offender and holds him motionless in its iron embrace, while at the instant a bell is struck in a room over head, occupiod by a watchman, giving him no tice that presence is required below. Should this watchman not get down to ihe assistance and release of tho wretch held by the iron arm in 15 minutes time then a blunderbuss is dis charged into the body of the trespasser. Thus he is mercifully allowed fifteen mimutes grace to reflect upon the enormity of his offence. A few years since a man was caught by tho iron nippers, and the watchman came to his relief only two minutes before the blunderbuss would have been discharged. The city of Naples proper is the most thiev ing place on earth. The population is 400,000, viz: 100,000 thieves, 100,000 beggars, 100, 000 soldiers and priests, and the balance decent people, who are made up of foreigners, respec table persons and shopmen, with the nobility and fishermen, who rank as the most honest of the Neapolitans. A Saltpetre Joke. The Philadelphia Times statoa that in tho . , . r :.: ,t, ,k.rr o. lha midst oi me exciuug aucua uu wo .m.. fire a few nights since, when a densely packed throng of people were collected ilnmediately in front of the stores that wero wrapped in the ra ging element, a wag jumping upon a pier log, exclaimed at the top of his voice, "Gentlemen, will saltpetre explode V Tho effect was elec- trie. Une inuiviauai sprung imu mo nci. n. half dozen went sprawling into ihe rivulets of molasses and wine that were running across tho avenue, and hundreds fell pell-mell ovor each other, and run helter-skelter to the nearest point of supposed safety. . A Great Country. If the following, from the Baltimore Clipper, is true, we are a great people, and the Old Do minion is a vast place: " Mr. Patton, of Petersburg, Virginia, has in vented a machine for navigating the air, after years of incessant application and study. It it a balloon, and can move fifty or siNty miles an hour. Connected with it is a battery, from which he can discharge from one to ten thous and one ounce balls a minute. He has like wise brought to perfection a submarine battery,, to go ten or twelve miles an hour, and with which, by means of a torpedo, he can blow up. a hostile fleet in thirty minutes. He can carry despatches to and from Oregon in a hundred and twenty hours." Some people love the name of giving moro than the thing given, and call it benevolence. A clear conscience fears no accusatiou. j way. ' ' ' ' jaw;
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